HO-551 Oakland Manor Washhouse and Icehouse (The Eye of the Camel, Rose Price Cottage)

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Last Updated: 02-07-2013 HO-551 'Oakland Manof Washhouse and Icehouse (Eye of the Camel'; Rose Price Cottage) 5432 Vantage Point Road Columbia

Description: The stone washhouse is located about 80 feet east of the main house on the'Dakland Manof property. It is a 1-1/2 story three-bay by two-bay rubble stone structure with a gable roof that has asphalt shingles and a north-south ridge. There is a cross-gable on the west elevation and an interior brick chimney on the south elevation, and a large new addition on the north end. The building is banked into the hill on the west with an addition on the east side that is 1-1/2 stories tall with an exposed basement. This addition is two bays by two bays, with a rubble stone foundation, frame walls with asbestos shingle siding, and a shed roof that slopes down to the east. The interior of the washhouse has one room in the stone section on the first story, with carpeting, paneling, and drywall on the ceiling. The basement has a fireplace on the south elevation. The west wall has CMU infill set south of center that closes off the doorway to the icehouse. The icehouse is located between the mansion house and the wash house, is completely underground, and has no part of its structure visible above ground (and apparently never did). The icehouse is a circular, domed, rubble stone structure and is approximately 18 feet in diameter and approximately 25 feet high, with a square opening at the top of the dome that has been closed off

Significance: The'Dakland Manof house (HO-32) and several outbuildings were designed by Abraham Lerew of Baltimore for Charles Sterrett Ridgely and built in 1810-11. The plans for the mansion house, carriage house, and dog house survive, but there are no surviving plans for any other buildings. The earliest documentation of the wash house and ice house comes from the 1838 sale ad for the property. The wash house is of a different design than the other outbuildings designed by Lerew, suggesting that it was added later, probably after Ridgely sold the farm to Robert Oliver in 1825. Presumably, the icehouse was added at the same time, since they are connected It is not known whether the wash house changed functions later in the nineteenth, or in the first half of the twentieth centuries. The dormer window and the drop pendants were probably added later in the nineteenth century to modernize it stylistically. Miriam J. Keller purchased'Dakland Manof in 1949 and converted several buildings on the farm to dwellings, including the wash house. She built a frame addition onto the back of the old washhouse and renovated the old structure for her daughter and son-in-law to live in for a year. An addition was put on the north end and the building became the center for African American history and culture in Howard County. Maryland Historical Trust Inventory No. HO-551 Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form

1. Name of Property (indicate preferred name)

historic Oakland Manor Washhouse and Icehouse other Eye of the Camel, Rose Price Cottage 2. Location

street and number 5432 Vantage Point Road not for publication

city, town Columbia vicinity

county Howard

3. Owner of Property (give names and mailing addresses of all owners)

name Columbia Association, Inc. street and number 10221 Wincopin Circle telephone 410-730-4744

city, town Columbia state MD zip code 21044-3423 .4. Location of Legal Description

courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Howard County Courthouse tax map and parcel: 30-308

city, town Ellicott City liber 3324 folio 191 5. Primary Location of Additional Data

Contributing Resource in National Register District Contributing Resource in Local Historic District Determined Eligible for the National Register/Maryland Register Determined Ineligible for the National Register/Maryland Register Recorded by HABS/HAER Historic Structure Report or Research Report Other 6. Classification

Category Ownership Current Function Resource Count agriculture landscape Contributing Noncontributing district public commerce/trade X recreation/culture 1_ 0^ buildings X building(s) JL private defense religion 0_ 0^ sites structure both domestic social 1_ 0^ structures site education transportation 0^ 0^ objects object funerary work in progress 2_ 0_ Total government unknown health care vacant/not in use Number of Contributing Resources industry other; previously listed in the Inventory 1 7. Description inventory NO. HO-551

Condition

excellent deteriorated _XL good ruins fair altered

Prepare both a one paragraph summary and a comprehensive description of the resource and its various elements as it exists today.

Summary: The stone washhouse is located about 80 feet east of the main house on the "Oakland Manor" property. It is a 1-1/2 story three- bay by two-bay rubble stone structure with a gable roof that has asphalt shingles and a north-south ridge. There is a cross-gable on the west elevation and an interior brick chimney on the south elevation, and a large new addition on the north end. The building is banked into the hill on the west with an addition on the east side that is 1-1/2 stories tall with an exposed basement. This addition is two bays by two bays, with a rubble stone foundation, frame walls with asbestos shingle siding, and a shed roof that slopes down to the east. The interior of the washhouse has one room in the stone section on the first story, with carpeting, paneling, and drywall on the ceiling. The basement has a fireplace on the south elevation. The west wall has CMU infill set south of center that closes off the doorway to the icehouse. The icehouse is located between the mansion house and the wash house, is completely underground, and has no part of its structure visible above ground (and apparently never did). The icehouse is a circular, domed, rubble stone structure and is approximately 18 feet in diameter and approximately 25 feet high, with a square opening at the top of the dome that has been closed off

Description: "Oakland Manor" Washhouse (aka Rose Price Cottage, Eye of the Camel) The stone washhouse is located about 80 feet east of the main house on the "Oakland Manor" property. It is a 1-1/2 story three- bay by two-bay rubble stone structure with a gable roof that has asphalt shingles and a north-south ridge. There is a cross-gable on the west elevation and an interior brick chimney on the south elevation, and a large new addition on the north end. The building is banked into the hill on the west with an addition on the east side that is 1-1/2 stories tall with an exposed basement. This addition is two bays by two bays, with a rubble stone foundation, frame walls with asbestos shingle siding, and a shed roof that slopes down to the east.

The west elevation has a new door in the center bay with a cut stone sill and lintel. The door has a beaded-interior-edge frame. To either side is a six-over-six sash with a beaded frame with a wood sill and a cut stone lintel. The cross gable is parged and has a round-arched six-over-six sash with a wood sill. There is a wood box cornice with returns, and the soffit of the comice has three slats with gaps between them. The south elevation foundation has a six-over-six sash in the east bay with a plain frame and a wood sill. The first story has two six-over-six sash with wood sills, beaded frames, and cut stone lintels. The gable end has two six-over- sash with wood sills and parged lintels. The sills are set below the eave line. There is a wood finial at the ridge with a drop pendant, and the top of this is broken off The north end of the ridge also has a drop pendant. On the south elevation of the addition, the foundation has a boarded-up door and a six-over-sash in a plain frame to the east. Both the first and second stories have a six-over-six sash in a plain frame in the center. The east elevation of the addition has German siding on the basement and first story and raw wood sheathing on the upper story. There is a boarded-up window opening in the south bay of both the first and upper stories, with no other openings. The north bay of the stone building has a boarded-up opening in the foundation and the first story.

The interior of the washhouse has one room in the stone section on the first story, with carpeting, paneling, and drywall on the ceiling over top of some sawn lath. The attic joists are sash sawn and run east-west, and the flooring above them is also sash sawn. The south elevation has a fireplace with a firebrick firebox, a tile hearth, and a modem brick surround. There is a wood mantel that has plain pilasters and plain raised impost blocks. The bed mould has a bead at the top, a quirked Greek ogee with a lip to it, and a cavetto below it that is very similar to the attic baseboard. The mantel shelf is squared off above the imposts and is bowed between the imposts. The edge of the shelf has a Greek ovolo and bead. This mantel was probably reused from somewhere within the house. The frame addition has modem partitions and a stairway to the basement.

The basement floor of the stone section appears to have been lowered approximately 8 inches and has linoleum tile. There is a Maryland Historical Trust Inventory No. HO-551 fVlaryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form

Name Oakland Manor Washhouse and Icehouse Continuation Sheet Number 7 Page 1

fireplace on the south elevation that has been closed off and has a thimble in the chinmey above it. The stone walls have been parged with a thin, Portland-cement-based stucco. The east wall has doorways in the north and center bays, with modem doors, and an enclosed window opening in the south bay. The west wall has CMU infill set south of center that closes off the doorway to the icehouse.

Icehouse The icehouse is located between the mansion house and the wash house, is completely underground, and has no part of its structure visible above ground (and apparently never did). The CMUs closing off the doorway to the icehouse were broken out, revealing a barrel-vaulted tunnel built of rubble stone that is several feet below the floor of the washhouse basement and slopes down to the west. At the west end of the tunnel is an opening with a cut stone lintel that gives access to the icehouse proper. The icehouse is a circular, domed, rubble stone structure with several feet of debris on the floor (including bottles and china), which is several feet below the level of the tunnel. The icehouse is approximately 18 feet in diameter and approximately 25 feet high, with a square opening at the top of the dome that has been closed off. .8. Significance Inventory No. HO-551

Period Areas of Significance Check and justify below

1600-1699 agriculture economics health/medicine performing arts 1700-1799 archeology education industry philospohy -X 1800-1899 JL architecture engineering invention politics/government 1900-1999 art entertainment/ landscape architecture religion 2000- commerce recreation law science communications ethnic heritage literature social history community planning exploration/ maritime industry transportation conservation settlement military other:

Specific dates N/A Architect/Builder N/A Construction dates c. 1825-38 Evaluation for:

National Register Maryland Register X not evaluated

Prepare a one-paragraph summary statement of significance addressing applicable criteria, followed by a narrative discussion of the history of the resource and its context. (For compliance reports, complete evaluation on a DOE Form - see manual.) Summary: The "'Oakland Manor" house (HO-32) and several outbuildings were designed by Abraham Lerew of Baltimore for Charles Sterrett Ridgely and built in 1810-11. The plans for the mansion house, carriage house, and dog house survive, but there are no surviving plans for any other buildings. The earliest documentation of the wash house and ice house comes from the 1838 sale ad for the property. The wash house is of a different design than the other outbuildings designed by Lerew, suggesting that it was added later, probably after Ridgely sold the farm to Robert Oliver in 1825. Presumably, the icehouse was added at the same time, since they are connected It is not known whether the wash house changed functions later in the nineteenth, or in the first half of the twentieth centuries. The dormer window and the drop pendants were probably added later in the nineteenth century to modernize it stylistically. Miriam J. Keller purchased "Oakland Manor" in 1949 and converted several buildings on the farm to dwellings, including the wash house. She built a frame addition onto the back of the old washhouse and renovated the old structure for her daughter and son-in-law to live in for a year. An addition was put on the north end and the building became the center for African American history and culture in Howard County.

Significance: The 'Oakland Manor" house (HO-32) and several outbuildings were designed by Abraham Lerew of Baltimore for Charles Sterrett Ridgely and built in 1810-11. The plans for the mansion house, carriage house, and dog house survive, but there are no surviving plans for any other buildings. The earliest documentation of the wash house and ice house comes from the 1838 sale ad for the propert}.-. In it is noted: "Near the east wing [of the mansion] is a wash house, and an ice house, both built of stone in the most convenient and suitable manner - the ice house is arched and capable of holding about 1200 bushels of ice. The wash house is of a different design than the other outbuildings designed by Lerew, suggesting that it was added later, probably after Ridgely sold the farm to Robert Oliver in 1825. Presumably, the icehouse was added at the same time, since they are connected; however, it is possible that the icehouse was earlier and accessed from the outside until the wash house was constructed. The building was banked into the hill, driven in part simply by geography, but also likely by the convenience for using the lower story and having a walkout on the east side (which would be hidden from the view of the mansion). On the mansion side the wash house was given dressed stone lintels to provide a more finishedquality , and the use of stone tied the building in w ith the other stone structures surrounding the house. Little seems to have been written about icehouses, but they were apparently still a rather new building type in 1810 and a luxury only affordable for the wealthy. Hampton Mansion in Towson retains one that is believed to have been built in the late eighteenth centur\', and is also rubble stone with a domed top and an entrance in the side, but it is built with the bottom narrow and the walls flaringou t as they go up. This structure is freestanding, not connected to another building as with "Oakland Manor." The size of the Oakland icehouse and the effort it would have taken each year to fill it are indicative of the wealth of "Oakland Manor's" owners as well as their social aspirations. It is not known whether the wash Maryland Historical Trust Inventory No HO-551 Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form

Name Oakland Manor Washhouse and Icehouse Continuation Sheet Number g Page j

house changed functions later in the nineteenth, or in the first half of the twentieth centuries. The dormer window and the drop pendants were probably added later in the nineteenth century to modernize it stylistically. (1)

Miriam J. Keller purchased "Oakland Manor" in 1949 and converted several buildings on the farm to dwellings, including the wash house. Keller's son-in-law, Cdr. Allen M. Dame, was in the Navy and enrolled in a post-graduate program at the Naval Academy at the same time that she bought "Oakland," so she built a frame addition onto the back of the old washhouse and renovated the old structure for her daughter and son-in-law to live in for a year. The fireplace on the first story has been altered, probably at this time, and has a wood mantel that appears consistent with those that survive in the mansion house. Given that the wash house was a work space, it seems likely that this mantel was moved here from the mansion after the renovations were done to the mansion by the Ryans c. 1940. From 1950 to 1956 the wash house was rented to a Dr. Bryson. In 1956 Sigmund and Rose Price bought the mansion and five acres, and in the 1960s the manor house was converted to a health spa specializing in weight loss. At that time the wash house became a dwelling for the Prices. The Rouse Company acquired most of the farmland and buildings in 1963 and the five acres with the mansion in 1966 and "Oakland Manor" in turn became a satellite campus for Antioch College, then Dag Hammarskjold College, then offices for the American Red Cross, and since 1988 has been owned by the Columbia Association and is available to rent for weddings and other activities. At some point the wash house became commercial space for a business known as the "Eye of the Camel," and this name was given to the building in the 1970s. An addition was put on the north end and the building became the center for African American history and culture in Howard County. (2)

Notes:

1. Bahimore American, 21 September 1838, p. 3, col. 7. Partially quoted in Michael F. Trostel, "A Report for the Adaptive Uses of Oakland," typescript, 1985. Charles E. Peterson, Notes on Hampton Mansion (College Park: University of Maryland, 2000), pp. 56-57.

2. H. Elizabeth Dame (nee Keller), Los Altos, CA, to Columbia Archives, personal correspondence, 2 November 2004. 9. Major Bibliographical References Inventory No HO-551

See continuation sheet.

10. Geographical Data

Acreage of surveyed property 3.839 acres Acreage of historical setting 533 acres Quadrangle name Savage Quadrangle scale 1:24000

Verbal boundary description and justification The boundaries consist of the east half of the property on map 30, p. 308, which encompasses the mansion house. Other historic structures on the property have been inventoried separately.

11. Form Prepared By name/title Ken Short

0 rg a n izati 0 n Howard County Dept. of Planning & Zoning date 9/17/2008

^^treet and number 3430 Courthouse Drive telephone 410-313-4335

city or town EUicott City state MD zip code 21043

The Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA, 1974 supplement.

The survey and inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only and do not constitute any infringement of individual property rights.

return to: Maryland Historical Trust DHCD/DHCP 100 Community Place Crownsville MD 21032 410-514-7600 HO - 551 Eye of the Camel U. S. Geological Survey Map Savage, Maryland Quadrangle HO-551 Oakland Manor Washhouse and Icehouse (The Eye of the Camel, Rose Price Cottage) 5432 Vantage Point Road Savage quad 1957 HO-551 'Oakland Manof Washhouse and Icehouse CEye of the Camel'; Rose Price Cottage) 5432 Vantage Point Road Howard County, Maryland Ken Short, photographer

Photo Log Nikon D-70 camera HP Premium Plus paper HP Gray Photo print cartridge

HO-0551_20071004_01 Washhouse, west & south elevations

HO-0551_20071004_02 Washhouse, mantel

HO-0551_20080903_01 Icehouse entrance

HO-0551_20080903_02 Icehouse dome

HO-551 The Eye of the Camel Columbia '" Private CIRCA 1820

The Eye of the Camel faces south on the south side of Vantage Point Road, north of Oakland Manor. It is a three bay wide, two bay deep, one-and-a-half story high, gabled roof (running east-west) stone building, resting on a full, stone foundation, with wide brick chimney centered into its west wall and an intersecting attic gable (running north-south), holding a roman arched, double-hung window with six-over- six lights. The central rectangular, south entrance door for the building is fronted by one wide, granite block, surmounted by a flat stone lintel and flanked by single, rectangular, double-hung, first floor windows. Each window holds six-over-six lights, is underlined by a flat wooden sill, and surmounted by a flat stone lintel.

A one bay wide, one bay deep, two story high, shed roofed, frame addition runs along the central and west bays of the north elevation

Associated with Oakland Manor, the building may date from the eighteenth century. Recently, it has been used as an art study, called the "Eye of the Camel", but now is boarded up. HO-551 Savage Quad MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST District 5 MAGI #1405515335

INVENTORY FORM FOR STATE HISTORIC SITES SURVEY

NAME HISTORIC The Eye of the Camel

AND/OR COMMON

LOCATION STREET & NUMBER 5432 Vantage Point Road

CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Columbia VICINITY OF 6th STATE COUNTY Maryland Howard CLASSIFICATION

CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS PRESENT USE

_DISTRICT —PUBLIC ,, —OCCUPIED —AGRICULTURE —MUSEUM

^BUILDING(S) ?LPRIVATE ^.UNOCCUPIED - • —COMMERCIAL _.PA:IK

—STRUCTURE —BOTH —WORK IN PROGRESS —EDUCATIONAL XPRIVATE RESIDENCE —SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE ENTERTAINMENT —RELIGIOUS

—OBJECT —IN PROCESS YES RESTRICTED —GOVERNMENT —SCIENTIFIC

—BEING CONSIDERED — YES: UNRESTRICTED —INDUSTRIAL —TRANSPORTATION

— NO —MILITARY —OTHER OWNER OF PROPERTY

NAME Howard Research & Development Telephone #: STREET & NUMBER Attn: Mrs. M. Dunham P.O.Box 833 CITY. TOWN STATE , Zip COde Columbia VICINITY OF Maryland 21044 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION Liber #:

COURTHOUSE. Tax Map 30, p. 353 Folio #: REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC Hall of Records

STREET & NUMBER Howard County Court House CITY. TOWN STATE Ellicott City Maryland REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS

TITLE Howard County Historic Sites Inventory DATE

1978-1979 —FEDERAL XsTATE _COUNTY —LOCAL

DEPOSITORY FOR

suRVEYREcoRDs Maryland Historical Trust

CITY. TOWN STATE 21 State Circle, Annapolis Maryland HO - 551 Savage Quad District 5 DESCRIPTION CONDITION CHECK ONE CHECK ONE

2LEXCELLENT —DETERIORATED —UNALTERED ^XORIGtNAL SITE —GOOD —RUINS X_ALTEREO —MOVED DATE —FAIR —UNEXPOSED

DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

The Eye of the Camel faces south on the south side of Vantage Point Road, north of Oakland Manor. It is a three bay wide, two bay deep, one-and- a-half story high, gabled roof (running east-west) stone building, rest­ ing on a full, stone foundation, with wide brick chimney centered into its west wall and an intersecting attic gable (running north-south), holding a roman arched, double-hung window with six-over-six lights. The central rectangular, south entrance door for the building is fronted by one wide, granite block, surmounted by a flat stone lintel and flanked by single, rectangular, doi±)le-hung, first floor windows. Each window holds six-over-six lights, is underlined by a flat wooden sill, and sur­ mounted by a flat stone lintel.

A one bay wide, one bay deep, two story high, shed roofed, frame addition runs along the central and west bays of the north wall, creating an "L" plan. THE EAST ELEVATION The east elevation of the stone house holds a ground floor, rectangular entrance. Two first and attic floor, vertically aligned, rectangular, double-hung windows holding six-over-six lights, rest in this wall. Iron grates are placed over the ground floor entrance and the first floor, south bay window. The east wall of the shed roof, frame addition slopes downward, creating a full, ground floor level, holding a rectangular entrance and north of the entrance a window, similar to those described, covered by an iron grate. A similar, first and second floor window lies above.

THE WEST ELEVATION The west wall of the stone house once held two first floor windows, similar to those described, which have now been blocked in with matching stone work, now covered by ivy. A similar, rectangular, attic window is centered into the "A" line formed by the gable roof.

The west wall of the frame addition holds a similar first floor and attic window. At this elevation, with the deep slope of land, which occurs on this elevation, these windows become first and second floor windows.

THE NORTH ELEVATION The west bay of the north elevation of the stone house holds a rectangular, ground floor entrance, surmounted by a flat stone lintel and a first floor window, similar to those already described.

CONTINUE ON SEPARATE SHEET IF NECESSARY Description HO - 551 Page 2 of 2 . Savage Quad District 5

The central and east bays of the north wall hold the shed roofed,frame addition. The north wall of this addition holds a first floor and attic window, similar to those described, which become on this elevation a second and third floor window. The interior was totally renovated under Mr. Levering and his associates, maintaining the central staircase, but totally face lifting the interior walls, floors and ceiling of the building for use as an art studio,with the front rooms of the old stone house serving as exhibition space. HO-551 Savage Quad SIGNIFICANCE District 5

PERIOD AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW —PREHfSTORIC —ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC —COMMUNITY PLANNING —LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE —RELIGION — 1400-1499 XARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC —CONSERVATION —LAW —SCIENCE —1SO0-1599 —AGRICULTURE —ECONOMICS —LITERATURE —SCULPTURE —1600-1699 ARCHITECTURE —EDUCATION —MILITARY —SOCIAiynUMANITARIAN —1700-1799 —ART —ENGINEERING -MUSIC —THEATER X-1800 1899 -COMMERCE -EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT —PHILOSOPHY —TRANSPORTATION —1900- —COMMUNICATIONS —INDUSTRY —POLITICS/GOVERNMENT —OTHER (SPECIFY) —INVENTION

SPECIFIC DATES Circa 1820 BUILDER/ARCHITECT

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The Eye of the Camel is a significant building for Howard County and the State of Maryland, historically through its associations with Oakland Manor and architecturally as a fine example of nineteenth century, Howard County, vernacular stone architecture.

Historically, it is associated with Oakland Manor, residence of Luther Martin, Attorney General of Maryland, and later of Robert Oliver, the English hunter, who built Oliver's Carriage House, now used by the Kittamaqundi Community for their church.

The manor is located just south of The Eye of the Camel and may once have been connected to it in some way by a wide stone passage, now ex­ cavated on the north side of Oakland Manor.

The following history, taken from The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard County, Maryland, was written by J. D. Warfield.

From here. Colonel Charles Sterrett Ridgely commanded his troopers as the bodyguard of General Lafayette, in 1825. Here was born Lieutenant Randolph Ridgely, a hero of the Mexican War. From here George R. Gaither drove his four iron- grays to St. John's Church each Sunday. From here Colonel George R. Gaither organized his Howard Dragoons, successors to Colonel Charles Carroll's Dragoons, of earlier days. Colonel Carroll's reviews of Gaither's Troopers ended in a royal treat of Southdown mutton and its attendants. All this was after Howard had risen to the dignity of her county rights and before war had come to check her proud career.

The sixty young men of Gaither's Troopers, all relations and friends, with a future that seemed bright, soon were . ordered to take up arms in defense of the State. They

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obeyed; with their Captain they crossed over the river, some to return not, some to go elsewhere, but few to remain. The Captain himself has passed on before.

This building was probably used to house a member of the house­ hold or to lodge a manager or overseer for the Manor.

Architecturally, the building is representative of vernacular stone architecture in Howard County, built into a steep slope of land so that the ground floor on the south elevation becomes a first floor on the north elevation.

Sometime in the mid-nineteenth century the central intersecting gable on the south facade may have been added, as its stone has been covered by cement or stucco, suggesting this may be constructed of frame beneath.

Excellent stonework is exemplified by the building's stone quoining, the projecting flat stone sills underlining windows, and the flat stone lintels over door and window frames. This stone building, in conjunction with Oakland Manor, Oliver's Carriage House, the three stone buildings on neighboring Hyla Brook Road, as well as the three stone and frame houses along the Old Columbia Pike, just south of Route 175, were all situated on and a part of Oakland Manor and Oakland Mills and should be considered together for inclusion to the National Register of Historic Sites, as those visible expressions of a once grand manor and industrial mill (located beneath Route 29 at its intersection with Route 175). HO-551 Savage Quad District 5 MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Howard County Land Records Holland, Celia, Landmarks of Howard County, Maryland 1976 Stein, C.F. Origin and History of Howard County, Maryland, Baltimore, 1972 Warfield, J.D. Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland, Baltimore, 1973. CONTINUE ON SEPARATE SHEET IF NECESSARY GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY

Please see Attachment 1, Tax Map

VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION

Please see Howard County Land Records, Liber Folio.

LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES

STATE Maryland COUNTY Howard

STATE COUNTY

FORM PREPARED BY NAME/TITLE Cleora Barnes Thompson,Archivist ORGANIZATION DATE Office of Planning & Zoning-Comprehensive Planning Section STREET & NUMBER TELEPHONE 3450 Court House Drive CITY OR TOWN STATE Ellicott City Maryland

The Maryland Historic Sites Inventory was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature, to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA, 1974 Supplement. The Survey and Inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only and do not constitute any infringe­ ment of individual property rights. RETURN TO: Maryland Historical Trust The Shaw House, 21 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401 (301) 267-1438 Attachment I HO - 551 Eye of the Camel Tax Map 30

ATTACHMENT 3 HO - 551 Eye of the Camel Hopkin's Atlas of 1878 HO - 551 Eye of the Camel U. S. Geological Survey Map Savage, Maryland Quadrangle

HO-551 Eye of the Camel Photographer: Cleora Thompson April 1980

HO-551 Eye of the Camel Cleora Thompson April 1980

HO-551 Eye of the Camel Cleora Thompson April 1980

Name: HO-551 The Eye of the Camel Location: 9 879 Vantage Point Road Columbia, Maryland 21044 Photographer: Cleora B. Thompson, A.I.C.P. Date of photograph: April, 19 80 Negatives in possession of the Maryland Historical Trust View: Southeast Photographer looking: Northwest Photograph number: 1 of 1